Title

Creator

Henry F. Osborn

Recipient

John Muir

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[2]on the Laramie plains. I visited four of our bone hunting camps. With great success. My wife and I took the tour of Detroit and Toronto for the American and British Associations in the latter part of August, met many people and enjoyed it greatly.I am glad you saw the [cape?] article. I especially enjoyed your Atlantic 'forest' article which is grand. It ought to be distributed as a campaign document by the hundred thousand. Too few people outside of the 'Hub' see the Atlantic although it is an admirable mag-[3][mem-]ory of our sunlit trip is as fresh as yesterday. I sent a large party of my students to Sitka this summer. and as you probably read they were wrecked and lost almost everything on the way home. I do not know whether they will have the grit to go back. We are all settling down in our wonderful new laboratories, but every man of us gets off into the wilds of real life during the summer. I took a flying Rocky Mt trip in May and was in at the discovery of a grand old dinosaur

Location

[New York]

Date Original

1897-11-18T00:00:00

Source

Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 23 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir09_1158-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 09, Image 1158

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